Malissia Wollen, the owner of Brook Park Lounge, said it's tough to keep a positive perspective through the work.

"People avoid this like the plague because it's terrible," Wollen said.

Wollen bought the bar nine years ago.

"My parents hung out here when I was a kid," she said. "This was their bar, so I've known the phone number to this bar since I was 10."

She said it's never been this slow at the bar, a byproduct of the construction, which started on April 20.

City staff said it has taken this long, because engineers decided to keep the intersection open rather than closing it all together for the work. City staff added, work in the area by Metropolitan Utilities District has delayed the project further.

Leaders at MUD said they try to work on utilities at the same time road crews are out reconstructing in the hopes of minimizing its side-effects. Here, they say, rain delayed their portion of the work at 90th and Maple by about two weeks.

Crews may not be completely done until mid-November.

Wollen said her regulars still show up and she's grateful.

"We'll white-knuckle through it and get through it the best that we can," Wollen said.

City engineers said they did work to make the construction as manageable as possible for everyone in the area. The engineer in charge of the project said if it were not for the MUD delay, they would already be finished.